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Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common.

England
List entry 1012811
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1012811
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.81 hectares
Grid reference
SU 45437 64863
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Berkshire. The cemetery comprises multiple round barrows, the characteristic burial mounds that typify Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England, dating to approximately 2000–1000 BCE. The site demonstrates the communal burial practices of Bronze Age communities and their territorial organisation across the chalk downland landscape of Berkshire. As a scheduled monument, it remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and death ritual in the region.

Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012811. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common.?

Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012811.

Who is responsible for protecting Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common.?

Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012811.

What other scheduled monuments are near Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common.?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill (8.5 km), A bell barrow and a saucer barrow 315m ESE of the unfinished hillfort on Ladle Hill (8.7 km), The western of two rectangular enclosures on Great Litchfield Down, SSW of Ladle Hill (8.7 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill
8.5 km
A bell barrow and a saucer barrow 315m ESE of the unfinished hillfort on Ladle Hill
8.7 km
The western of two rectangular enclosures on Great Litchfield Down, SSW of Ladle Hill
8.7 km
The eastern of two rectangular enclosures on Great Litchfield Down, SSW of Ladle Hill
8.8 km
Bowl barrow 730m south west of the unfinished hillfort on Ladle Hill
8.8 km
Bowl barrow 610m east of Crux Easton Church
9 km
Three bowl barrows 410m north east of Thorn Down: three of the group known as Seven Barrows
9.3 km
Ring ditch 250m NNE of Thorn Down: part of the group known as Seven Barrows
9.4 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common.

Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.

The wider landscape

Around Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common.

SilchesterRoman town · ~11.6 milesMildenhallRoman town · ~15 milesDorchester-on-ThamesRoman town · ~19.8 milesWest Kennet Long BarrowArchaeological site · ~21.8 milesFirst Battle of NewburyBattle (1643) · ~0.5 milesBattle of Cheriton 1644Battle (1644) · ~23.7 milesBattle of Chalgrove 1643Battle (1643) · ~23.7 miles
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